About man and nature (the relationship between man and nature)
Man was born in earthly conditions.
Air, water, earth, the rhythms of natural processes, the diversity of flora and fauna, the natural landscape, climatic features - all this determined human life and determined his biological needs. He, a person, must stand on the ground, constantly breathe, must eat and drink regularly, endure heat and cold. In other words, human life can take place within a relatively narrow range of physical and chemical conditions. Whatever a person does, he can act only if he manages to create around himself an environment that is familiar and necessary for his normal functioning. For example, astronauts live in space. But only if conditions similar to those on earth, natural for people, are artificially created in their ship or at a research station. The conditions of the “artificial earth” are maintained in their laboratories by ocean researchers descending to the bottom in submersibles. And if they go into the depths of the sea, they use scuba gear. Just like astronauts need a spacesuit to ensure familiar earthly conditions. A person may be in an environment contaminated with harmful chemicals. But at the same time, he remains healthy only if he protects himself from harmful influences with the help of special devices. The work “Human Ecology”, published by the World Health Organization (WHO), states exactly this: “Air, water, soil, fire, natural rhythms, as well as the diversity of species living on earth, are important not only as certain chemical combinations, physical forces or biological phenomena, but also in themselves, since under their influence the foundations of human life were laid. They have created human needs, the roots of which lie very deep and which will not change in the more or less near future. The desire of people to spend their free time at the end of the week in nature, fireplaces that are still built into heavily heated city apartments, sentimental attachment to animals and even plants - all this indicates that somewhere in the human psyche biological and emotional impulses are preserved acquired during evolution, which he cannot get rid of.”
The relationship between man and nature is surprisingly complex and surprisingly inextricable. Having begun his social and labor activity, he followed the path of greater and greater mastery of nature, began to influence it, modifying its natural pristine state. And along with this process—in indissoluble unity—there was another process. As a result of the steadily developing labor activity of man, his own nature also changed, until over many, many millennia he became homo sapiens - a reasonable man, a new biological species of earthly life.
We can say that nature created man - a living being, but only social-labor relations created Homo sapiens.
According to his biological characteristics, man is a part of nature. By nature, man is a social being. But social, social and labor activity of people is possible only on the biological basis that is inherent to man as a species. That is why man is both a “child of nature” and “the crown of nature.”
Man and nature are one system. Its parts depend on each other, change each other, help or hinder each other in development. And to live, you need to be in balance with the environment constantly. That is why modern humanity considers concern for the protection of nature so important and necessary, and adopts fair laws prohibiting violation of its unity.
And this connection is sometimes so deep and so distant that it is difficult to believe in it. The words written in one solid monograph devoted to the place of man in the scientific picture of the world seem almost fantastic.
Essay on the topic of what is nature OGE grade 9
OGE grade 9. Task 15.3. Text for work (I) I remember very well a story from my childhood, when Vaska and I went to pick mushrooms. (2) Having reached the place, we walked briskly through familiar places, shivering and putting our hands in our pockets. (3) In our baskets were freshly baked bread with onions, hard-boiled eggs, cucumbers from our own garden, and I had a book. (4) At that time I carried books with me everywhere, I especially loved science fiction. (5) This book, as I remember now, was also fantastic. (6) In general, some people flew to the Moon and, using special devices, moved towards the place where the unknown part of the planet began, because the Moon is turned to us on one side. (7) I just had time to read the lines when they crossed this fatal line of visible and invisible and a completely unusual sight opened up to their eyes... (8) What was revealed to their eyes, I never found out and still don’t know, because I I lost my book in the forest. (9) I noticed the loss at the moment when we climbed onto the reinforced concrete railway track to walk back to the station. (10) “Oh, I’m lost,” said Vaska, sitting down on the cold rail. (11) - Look, maybe she’s lying under the mushrooms? (12) - No, Vaska, she’s not under the mushrooms. (13) Just as I remember now, I put it under a bush, and then... (14) In short, I won’t leave without a book. (15) Until nightfall we bent over every bush and crawled through the grass. (16) We wandered into a thicket of drunken berries, which we had never seen here before. (17) The berries were blue, the size of a little fingernail, like grapes. (18) Then we admired the viburnum at the edge of the forest, bright as fire. (19) In that damp lowland they found several leaves of lily of the valley with an ovary as red as a button. (20) We picked the lilies of the valley and the ovary and threw them away, but we took their long roots: they could have been planted in a pot of soil, watered with warm water, and then a real lily of the valley flower would have grown in January. (21) Vaska, crawling on the ground and parting the ferns, suddenly said: (22) - Look, snake skin! (23) We, without touching, pleasantly cold from fear and risk, closely examined the gray ingots of scales, which, as it turned out, retained the shape of their owner. (24) Then we touched them with a stick - they crumbled into dust. (25) - They stepped over this fatal line of visible and invisible, and it was completely opened to their eyes... (26) - Come here, there is a spring! - Vaska shouted. (27) It was a hole, lined along the edges with thin stems so that the earth would not collapse. (28) In the dark but visible depths, tiny volcanoes seemed to be erupting, carrying gray dust above them. (29) White worm-like roots moved along the walls, as if alive, from the light rising streams, and a timid little frog sat, clinging to a leaf and closing his eyes in fear... (30) Closing our heads and not breathing, we quietly looked into the depths of the spring.... (31) - Vaska, what is the source of the spring? (32) From the word native? (33)—I don’t know. (34) Born, perhaps. (35) Or because his homeland is here. (Zb) After all, it comes from the interior of the earth. (37) It was evening, and we went to the station. (38) “They crossed this fatal line between the visible and the invisible, and a completely unusual sight was revealed to their eyes...” Vaska said from memory and looked at me thoughtfully. (39) - What do you think was revealed to them? 168 (40)—A country opened up to them that they had never seen before... (41)Really, Vaska? (42) “Yeah,” Vaska said and looked back at the forest. {According to A. Pristavkin) 15.3. How do you understand the meaning of the word NATURE? Formulate and comment on the definition you have given. Write an essay-argument on the topic: “What is nature?”, taking the definition you gave as the thesis. When arguing your thesis, give 2 (two) examples-arguments that confirm your reasoning: give one example-argument from the text you read, and the second from your life experience. The essay must be at least 70 words. If the essay is a retelling or completely rewritten of the original text without any comments, then such work is scored zero points. Option 1 Nature is everything not made by man that surrounds us. Its beauty and amazing diversity are revealed only to those who are attentive. Let us turn for evidence to the text of A. Pristavkin. Vaska and his friend, who went into the forest, would never have known what an amazing world they found themselves in, if not for the lost book. Her search forced her to look under the bushes, and there an unknown world opened up. The drunkard, the ovary of the lily of the valley, the snake skin - all this, like the hidden jewels of a now open casket, fascinated the boys and aroused surprise (sentences 16, 19, 22, 23). Having crossed the line of the invisible, they rediscovered the familiar forest. Even though the friends did not find the lost book, they realized that their attentiveness helped them see a lot (sentences 40, 41). Nature reveals its beauties not to a cursory glance, but only to those who peer and listen to it. Option 2 Nature is the living world around us, amazing and different. Its diversity leaves no one indifferent, it encourages thought and allows you to make unexpected discoveries. In A. Pristavkin's story, the boys find much more for themselves than a lost book - a new world, which, it turns out, was next to them. The fontanel that the friends stumbled upon makes them wonder why it was named so (sentences 31-35), and the skin shed by the snake allows them to discover that it has retained the shape of the hostess’s body (sentences 23). Having repeated the words from a science fiction book, they realized that a new unknown country, full of mysteries and secrets, is nature. It’s wonderful when you begin to understand that the most amazing thing is next to you, you just have to look closely. Option 3 When talking about nature, a person means everything that lives on our planet - plants, birds and animals, as well as their environment of growth and habitat. Man is also a part of nature, he studies its wonderful world. In the story by A. Pristavkin, two boys, in search of a book, discovered many natural secrets that the forest hid in itself - drunken berries (sentence 16), lilies of the valley with an ovary (sentence 19), even skin shed by a snake (sentence 22) . Earth is the only planet in the solar system on which there is life, and its natural features are the subject of study by scientists. One of the unknown natural mysteries is the Mariana Trench. Not a single person had yet visited its bottom, but a special bathyscaphe was able to bring a water sample, and the result of the expedition was the discovery of a number of previously unknown organisms and bacteria. I believe that nature will still give humanity many of its secrets, as happened in the story I read. Option 4 Nature is the world around us: forests and fields, oceans, deserts, as well as their inhabitants. There are several million life forms on Earth. And all of them, including humans, are integral parts of nature. The boys had a chance to become acquainted with its diversity from the story of A. Pristavkin. While exploring the forest in search of the missing book, they became better acquainted with the life of plants and animals. For example, friends admired the viburnum tree at the edge of the forest (sentence 18) and saw a frog in the spring (sentence 29). Nature gave them different emotions: admiration (sentence 18), fear (sentence 23). The wonders of nature truly amaze the imagination, which is why tourists from all over the world go to see them every year. For example, in the Kaliningrad region, many are attracted by the “dancing forest”, where the trees have a bizarre shape, and in China there is the Shilin stone forest, which is a karst formation that looks like a giant labyrinth of mighty pines or oaks. There are many amazing things in nature, so each of us can find in it something that will be remembered for a lifetime. Option 5 Nature is everything that is not created by man. Land and oceans, animals, plants, insects - this is all nature. The beauty of nature inspires a person and leaves indelible impressions on his soul. In A. Pristavkin’s story, the boys are so amazed by the new forest discoveries that they call the forest “a completely unusual sight” (sentence 38). Of course, the narrator quotes the book that he lost, but we understand that we are talking about their day, full of finds beyond the line of “visible and invisible.” In addition, nature is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for humans. This is confirmed by the works of famous landscape artists I.I. Levitan, I.K. Aivazovsky, I.I. Shishkina. A person should be grateful to nature for the fact that it gives the joy of discovery and awakens the brightest feelings in the soul.
Collocations with the word “nature” (lexical compatibility)
Adjectives (epithets) for the word “nature”
Northern, southern, subtropical, tropical, majestic (high), harsh, virgin, surrounding, native, living, dead, unknown (book), unexplored, hidden, secret ... nature.
Compatibility with the word “nature”
Forces, laws, study, wealth, resources, strength, beauty, conquest, transformation, protection... of nature.
Verb compatibility:
To love, study, change, transform, remake, conquer, protect, explore... nature.
Admire, admire...nature. Set expressions with the word “nature”
in the lap of nature - in the open air from nature - from birth, from the beginning of existence. by nature - by nature, by character.
